Fundamental Movement Skills Teacher Resource Books

Fundamental Movement Skills deepens teachers’ understandings of how to effectively assess, plan, and teach physical activity. Twenty-two fundamental movement skills are included with details on how to break down each skill for assessment and teaching purposes.

The resource also provides practical teaching activities that assist teachers to plan and deliver effective learning experiences that enhance students’ development of proficient fundamental movement skills.

Book 1: Learning, Teaching and Assessment

This text provides practical information that assists teachers in developing student’s fundamental movement skills. With the use of this book, teachers can easily choose a focus skill, incorporate learning experiences throughout the daily learning program and share information about learning. In particular, teachers will be supported to address individual needs and encourage the participation of all students.

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Book 2: The Tools for Learning, Teaching and Assessment

This text contains five detailed sets of tools to support the learning, teaching and assessment of fundamental movement skills.

Tool 1: Fundamental Movement Skills Descriptors
Twenty-two skills are described and broken down into skill criteria. An Observation Record and suggested teaching ideas are also provided for each skill. Together, these enable teachers to gather information about a student’s achievement of a particular skill and to decide what further opportunities the student may need.

Tool 2: Assessment Strategies
A wide-range of assessment tools will provide teachers with many options for gathering information about students’ achievement of fundamental movement skills.

Tool 3: Learning Experiences for FMS
Both student-structured and teacher-structured experiences are described in detail and will provide teachers with many examples of how to use these learning experiences to develop fundamental movement skills.

Tool 4: Formats for Sharing Information
Teachers will find a range of practical ways to share information with students, parents, other teachers, the school and the community.

Tool 5: Stay in Step Screening Test
This screening test will provide teachers with additional information about students having difficulty mastering fundamental movement skills.

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A Support DVD, Making the Right Moves

Teachers can observe children performing in a smooth, co-ordinated manner as well as children yet to master seven fundamental movement skills (run, hop, jump throw, catch, kick, strike). The use of normal, slow motion and freeze frame clips makes this a valuable resource to help teachers observe the components of each skill.

The DVD is located at the back of Book One.

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